Patient empowerment in endocrinology

Patient 2.0 Empowerment

The authors want to show the implication of interactive ICT on patient empowerment, through an overview of some of the key aspects EHR, telecare and patient networks all this within the context of recent Health 2.0 developments. Definitions will be given of both Health 2.0 and Patient 2.0 Empowerment.

Patient-empowerment interactive technologies.

Video games capture the rapt attention of an individual player's mind and body, providing new opportunities for personalized health care. An example of therapeutic interactive technologies is an incentive-based video game that translates physical exercise into mental empowerment via motivational metaphoric visualization in order to help patients psychologically overcome cancer. Such nonpharmaco...

Empathy for Patient Centeredness and Patient Empowerment

Empathy involve internal process of experiencing what is perceived from the outside world through our senses leading to imaginations and projections, so that such experience will turn the belief of “I and you” in to “I am you” or at least “I might be you”. According to Hojat, empathy in clinical practice is predominantly a cognitive attribute that involves understanding and communicating this u...

EPF Background Brief: Patient Empowerment

The psychological processes involved in patient empowerment

Patient empowerment is widely accepted as a process by which people are helped to use autonomous decision making in order to better self-manage their condition, gain control over their health and remain socially integrated [1]. Prevalent definitions of empowerment are therefore mainly based on the view that autonomy is recognised in people’s self-determination, and that empowerment is a procedu...